Origin of the Pledge of Allegiance

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Origin of the Pledge of Allegiance

• History

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Old Glory
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Creation of the Pledge

• The Pledge was created in 1892 by Francis
  Bellamy.
• It was a gimmick for the Chicago World's Fair
  celebration in honor of the Quadri-centennial of
  Columbus' arrival in America.
• The U.S. Government made plans for a national
  Public School Celebration for Columbus Day, 1892.

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Sponsors

• This gimmick was sponsored by the editors of The
  Youth's Companion, a popular family magazine of
  the late 19th century.
• They also sponsored the celebration and made it
  their goal to get every public school in America
  to raise a flag while students recited a salute
  but first, a salute had to be written.
• Note We suspect that this magazine was owned
  by national socialists as you'll see in the next
  slide.

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Francis Bellamy

• Francis Bellamy was a Baptist minister who was
  forced out of his Boston church for his socialist
  sermons.
• He was assigned to write the Pledge of Allegiance
  for The Youth's Companion.
• The pledge he wrote was recited by an estimated
  10 million schoolchildren on Columbus Day,
  October 12, 1892.

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The Bellamy Pledge

• "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic
  for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with
  liberty and justice for all."
• Columbus Day, October 12, 1892

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Changes to the Pledge

• Over the years many changes were suggested but
  none of them were formally adopted.
• The U.S, Congress officially recognized the
  Pledge of Allegiance on June 22, 1942.

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Changes to the Pledge

• Following a campaign initiated by the Roman
  Catholic Knights of Columbus in 1954, Senator
  Homer Ferguson of Michigan sponsored a bill to
  insert the words under God.
• This was to distinguish the U.S. from the
  godless communists and to keep us from
  worshiping a flag as a graven image.

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Changes to the Pledge

• What was originally a patriotic oath became a
  public prayer, too.
• President Dwight D. Eisenhower said in 1954, this
  prayer ... will be our country's most powerful
  resource in peace and war.

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Current Pledge
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Socialist Takeover of Education

• Children in government schools were required to
  salute the flag with the original straight-arm
  salute and pledge written by a National
  Socialist, Francis Bellamy, to promote socialism
  in our nation.
• The Bellamy Salute and Pledge of Allegiance was
  the origin of the salute and pledge of allegiance
  of the National Socialist German Worker's Party
  (aka Nazis).

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Socialist Takeover of Education

• When the Pledge was written, most of the children
  in the U.S. were either home schooled or received
  non-government public education (the old one-
  room school).
• They were taught to think like Freemen, not
  mindless robots.
• However, that was soon to change...

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The Pledge in AmericanPublic Schools

• The original Pledge used a straight-armed Salute!

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U.S. Government Takeover of Education

• Government education imposed segregation by law
  and taught racism as official policy.

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More Salutes in AmericanPublic Schools

• The Pledge began with a military salute that then
  extended outward toward the flag.

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More Salutes
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Bellamy's Influence in Italy and Germany

• Bellamy was a self-proclaimed socialist in the
  nationalism movement of the day post 1871.
• His dogma later influenced fascists in Italy in
  the '30s under Mussolini, who later influenced
  the socialists in Germany, mainly Hitler.
• Nazi means National Socialists German Worker's
  Party

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Agenda of Socialism in the '30s

• The swastika was used to represent S letters
  joined in the form of a cross for socialism
  under the German National Socialists.

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The Salute in Germany

• Notice the Priests Saluting Hitler, 1934

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The Salute
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Agenda of Socialism in America

• During the '30s, Preston Bush, the father of
  ex-president George Herbert Walker Bush, Sr.,
  used his bank to launder money to fund Hitler's
  socialist programs.

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Agenda of Socialism in America

• Bush's Grandfather Planned a Fascist Coup in
  America

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Agenda of Socialism in America

• A clique of power brokers, including Prescott
  Bush, sought to overthrow the U.S. government and
  implement Hitlerian policies
• The conspirators were operating under the
  umbrella of a front group called the American
  Liberty League, which included many families that
  are still household names today, including Heinz,
  Colgate, Birds Eye, and General Motors.

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Agenda of Socialism in America

• In 1933, Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler
  was approached by these wealthy and secretive
  industrialists and bankers, including Prescott
  Bush.
• They asked him to command a 500,000 strong rogue
  army of veterans that would help stage a coup to
  topple then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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Agenda of Socialism in America

• Butler played along with the clique to determine
  who was involved but later blew the whistle and
  identified the ringleaders in testimony given to
  the House Committee on un-American Activities.
• However, the Committee refused to even question
  any of the individuals named by Butler and his
  testimony was omitted from the record.
• The Committee was involved in covering the matter
  up and the majority of the media blackballed the
  story.

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Agenda of Socialism in America

• Bellemy's dogma lead to the Wholecaust (of
  which the Holocaust was a part)
• 62 million killed under the former Union of
  Soviet Socialist Republics
• 49 million killed under the Peoples' Republic of
  China
• 21 million killed under the National Socialist
  German Workers' Party
• Total 134 million killed under Socialism

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Socialist Takeover of America

• After the attack on Pearl Harbor and our entering
  WWII, in order to prevent confusion or
  controversy over the salute, President Franklin
  D. Roosevelt instituted the hand-over-the heart
  gesture as the salute to be rendered by civilians
  during the Pledge of Allegiance and the National
  Anthem in the United States, instead of the
  Bellamy Salute.
• This was done when Congress officially amended
  the Flag Code on 22 December, 1942.

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Socialist Takeover of America

• Japanese Internees during WWII were forced to
  salute and pledge their allegiance to a flag of a
  government that incarcerated them simply because
  they were of Japanese descent.
• In our public schools any child who refused to
  salute was expelled.
• To this day children and adults alike are still
  ostracized and persecuted in some government
  schools or at some public events if they refuse
  to robotically chant the socialist pledge.

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Commentary on the Pledge

• When we broke away from Great Britain, we as a
  People became independent and individually
  sovereign.
• Sovereigns need not, nor should they, pledge
  allegiance to anyone or anything, except God.
• God created The People, who created the
  Constitution. The states ratified the
  Constitution and the Constitution created the
  government.
• Government employees are our servants and
  absolutely need to pledge their allegiance to the
  People, to the flag and to the Republic.

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Commentary on the Pledge

• Whether we place our hand over our heart or raise
  it with a straight arm, the salute is counter to
  our sovereignty as a People. It's a symbol of
  Socialism and Nationalism (one of the 10 planks
  of the Communist Manifesto).
• Before this nationalist transition, starting in
  1871 with the 14th Amendment and 1892 with the
  Bellamy Salute, we as a People prided ourselves
  as citizens of the free states we were born in or
  adopted and were proud of our individual
  sovereign rights and state citizenship.

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In Conclusion

• The USA is still the worst example in the world
  of laws that require robotic chanting to a
  national flag in government schools (i.e.,
  socialist schools)
• It has changed generations of Americans from
  libertarians to authoritarians.
• The government bamboozled individuals into
  believing that collective robotic chanting in
  government schools daily is an expression of
  freedom.
• Tinny Ray

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References

• RexCurry.net
• Sodahead.com
• Wikipedia.com
• www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/240707fasci
  stcoup.htm
• Miller, Margarette S. (1976). Twenty Three Words
  A Biography of Francis Bellamy Author of the
  Pledge of Allegiance. Nat'l Bellamy Award.
  ISBN 0686156269, 9780686156260.
• H.J.Res. 303, enacted June 22, 1942. (with the
  Bellamy Salute) Section 7, Pub. L. 77-623, 56
  Stat. 380, Chap. 435.

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References

• H.J.Res. 359, enacted December 22, 1942. (without
  the Bellamy Salute) Section 7, Pub.L. 77-829, 56
  Stat. 1074, Chap. 806.
• Leepson, Marc (2006). Flag An American
  Biography. Macmillan. p. 171. ISBN 0312323093.
• Fried, Richard M. (1999). The Russians Are
  Coming! The Russians Are Coming! Pageantry and
  Patriotism in Cold-War America. New York Oxford
  University Press (USA). p. 12. ISBN 0-19-513417-6.
  
• Internet Searches Preston Bush Conspiracy,
  Bellamy Salute, Nazi Salute, Roman Salute, Tinny
  Ray.

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References

• Read More
• http//blogcritics.org/culture/article/the-pledge-
  of-allegiance/page-2/ixzz1jMeB1L9o
• http//blogcritics.org/culture/article/the-pledge-
  of-allegiance/page-2/ixzz1jMecbLI9
• Listen to
• http//rexcurry.net/rexcurry4.mp3

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Credits/Resources

• Research Shirley Gustafson, Flagstaff Jural
  Assembly
• Powerpoint Presentation Charles Gus Gustafson,
  Flagstaff Jural Assembly
• Web site FlagstaffAssembly.org
• Links
• Research Paper metaclast.com/R4uSA/documents/Ple
  dgeOfAllegiance.pdf
• Powerpoint Presentation metaclast.com/R4uSA/docum
  ents/PledgeOfAllegiance.ppt